No sound on Solaris 11 after 1st boot

kfritz · 07-09-2011, 06:37 PM

Sound works fine on live CD, and after install, it works fine on the first boot. Subsequent boots, no sound. I have 2 audio devices (snipped from scanpci):

Code:

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x14 function 0x02: vendor 0x1002 device 0x4383
 ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x01: vendor 0x10de device 0x0be3
 nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller

The first is on the motherboard, second on the video card, I think. My speakers are plugged into the motherboard.

prtconf has no mention of either of the above vendor/model codes (currently, didn't check when it was working).

Where do I even start to debug this? What command tells what driver is being used, if any, for audio?

Any nudge in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks.

jlliagre · 07-10-2011, 07:47 AM

Start by looking to these commands output:

Code:

dmesg | grep audio
ls -l /dev/audio* /dev/sound/*

kfritz · 07-10-2011, 10:21 AM

Thanks for the reply. But, I don't see much difference between the working live-cd output and the non-working, beyond the order in dmesg. Any more suggestions?

Working:

Code:

Jul 10 07:40:50 solaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: audio0
Jul 10 07:40:50 solaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] audio0 is /pseudo/audio@0
Jul 10 07:40:53 solaris npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: pci1043,8444@14,2, audiohd0
Jul 10 07:40:53 solaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] audiohd0 is /pci@0,0/pci1043,8444@14,2
Jul 10 07:40:53 solaris pcieb: [ID 586369 kern.info] PCIE-device: pci1043,8378@0,1, audiohd1
Jul 10 07:40:53 solaris npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: pci1043,8378@0,1, audiohd1
Jul 10 07:40:53 solaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] audiohd1 is /pci@0,0/pci1002,5a16@2/pci1043,8378@0,1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   7 2011-07-10 07:41 /dev/audio -> sound/0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  10 2011-07-10 07:41 /dev/audioctl -> sound/0ctl

/dev/sound:
total 12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 2011-07-10 07:41 0 -> audiohd:0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2011-07-10 07:41 0ctl -> audiohd:0ctl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 2011-07-10 07:41 1 -> audiohd:1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2011-07-10 07:41 1ctl -> audiohd:1ctl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 2011-07-10 07:41 audiohd:0 -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1043,8444@14,2:sound,audio0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 2011-07-10 07:41 audiohd:0ctl -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1043,8444@14,2:sound,audioctl0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 2011-07-10 07:41 audiohd:0dsp -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1043,8444@14,2:sound,dsp0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 2011-07-10 07:41 audiohd:0mixer -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1043,8444@14,2:sound,mixer0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 66 2011-07-10 07:41 audiohd:1 -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1002,5a16@2/pci1043,8378@0,1:sound,audio1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 69 2011-07-10 07:41 audiohd:1ctl -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1002,5a16@2/pci1043,8378@0,1:sound,audioctl1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 2011-07-10 07:41 audiohd:1dsp -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1002,5a16@2/pci1043,8378@0,1:sound,dsp1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 66 2011-07-10 07:41 audiohd:1mixer -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1002,5a16@2/pci1043,8378@0,1:sound,mixer1

Non-working:

Code:

Jul 10 06:39:37 hex pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: audio0
Jul 10 06:39:37 hex genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] audio0 is /pseudo/audio@0
Jul 10 06:39:45 hex pcieb: [ID 586369 kern.info] PCIE-device: pci1043,8378@0,1, audiohd1
Jul 10 06:39:45 hex npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: pci1043,8378@0,1, audiohd1
Jul 10 06:39:45 hex genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] audiohd1 is /pci@0,0/pci1002,5a16@2/pci1043,8378@0,1
Jul 10 06:39:46 hex npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: pci1043,8444@14,2, audiohd0
Jul 10 06:39:46 hex genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] audiohd0 is /pci@0,0/pci1043,8444@14,2
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  7 2011-07-09 16:06 /dev/audio -> sound/0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 2011-07-09 16:06 /dev/audioctl -> sound/0ctl

/dev/sound:
total 6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 2011-07-09 16:06 0 -> audiohd:0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2011-07-09 16:06 0ctl -> audiohd:0ctl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 2011-07-09 16:06 1 -> audiohd:1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2011-07-09 16:06 1ctl -> audiohd:1ctl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 2011-07-09 16:06 audiohd:0 -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1043,8444@14,2:sound,audio0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 2011-07-09 16:06 audiohd:0ctl -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1043,8444@14,2:sound,audioctl0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 2011-07-09 16:06 audiohd:0dsp -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1043,8444@14,2:sound,dsp0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 2011-07-09 16:06 audiohd:0mixer -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1043,8444@14,2:sound,mixer0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 66 2011-07-09 16:06 audiohd:1 -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1002,5a16@2/pci1043,8378@0,1:sound,audio1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 69 2011-07-09 16:06 audiohd:1ctl -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1002,5a16@2/pci1043,8378@0,1:sound,audioctl1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 2011-07-09 16:06 audiohd:1dsp -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1002,5a16@2/pci1043,8378@0,1:sound,dsp1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 66 2011-07-09 16:06 audiohd:1mixer -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1002,5a16@2/pci1043,8378@0,1:sound,mixer1

kfritz · 07-13-2011, 01:45 PM

I ultimately found a solution by abandoning my Solaris experiment and returning to my Slackware comfort-zone, though not due to this annoyance. Thanks anyways!